Mop and clothes-lifter.



R. SETZER.

MOP AND CLOTHES LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, en.

Patent-ed Aug. 14, 1917:.

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To all whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, RICHARD SE'rzER, a citizen of the Unlted States, resldlng at Motley, in the county of Morrison and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Mop and ClothesLifter, of whlch the following isa speclficatlon.

My invention relates lifting device for removing clothes from wash boilers. r i I In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is apartly, sectional upper side or front view of the device. Fig. 2 is a. side view of the device with the mop handle detached and removed. F1g. 3 1s a slde vlew section on line bZ2 Fig. 4: with the handle rod omitted. Fig. 8 is a section on line 00 Fig. 2 of the handle rod only. Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 8 with one of the wlre hooks 11 in place. Fig. 10 is an enlarged section on the line (Z-cl Fig. 1, showing how the lower wire jaw is secured in the handle rod'by a ring, or cold shut. Fig. 11 is a bottom view of Fig. 10 with the handle rod intact and slightly modified and only the cold shut in section. Fig. 12 is a detail view of the cold-shut only.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 designates the handle rod of the device; it is made of metal and provided with two shallow transverse notches 2 (best shown in Figs. 2 and 8). The lower end of the rod is flattened and bent at about right angles as at 3 and provided either with two holes as 4: in Fig. 5 or a slot as P in Fig. 6, for a pair of wires 5, 5 to be slidably guided therein in spaced relation so they can not rotate in the guide and twist one about the other. The downward portion of said wires 5-5 forms an integral yoke 6, having a transverse bar 7 and above that bar secured upon it three other cross-bars '8, 9,

and 10, whereby the main yoke is given two slidable on the rod, and by spring action of the wires 5-5 are held in engagement with to mops; and the object is to provide an: improved mop so constructed that it willalso readily serve as a as at 12 in Fig. Y1 or secured together'by a cold-shut as 13 inFigs: 2,3, and 7,-said means 12,or 13,serving to hold the wires that theyspringwiththe rings 11 into one or the other of-the notches 2-2-.

At the rear'side'of the roams-a wire yoke or loop lthavi'ng its resilienta'rms15 placed if Specification of Lama-ant. I Pat t d k); 14,1917,

ApplicationfiledMaflh 15,1917. Serial1 Te;'15 5,044.

together and .so support them on the rod '1 in 'al'ongitudinal' groove 16in the bar 1, their ends 17 bent at right angles into one or more cavities 18 in the rod and are secured in thatpositionby a ring o 1f cold-shut 19. 'driven, ,or closed tightly v er them. The

loop "end 1 1 of the rearfyoke is curved forwardly as at 20in Fig. 2 and formed with a transverse bar 21, which may be called the fixed jaw, since it never moves in longitudh nal direction of the device, but is normally swung by its resilient arms, 14c, away from the yokes 78 and 9 -10, either of which may be brought in position to receive it.v

That is, if'the rings 11 are in the notch 2 (see Fig. 2). The yoke 78 will receive the jaw bar 21 and co-actwith it in holding a mop cloth 22 firmly, provided the funnelended sleeve 23. is pushed to the position shown in Fig. 1 so-as to hold the jaw closed into the yoke. And if the rings 11 are in the notch12, the yoke 910 will take the place of yoke 78 and hold a garment 24' which may in that way be lifted out of a hot wash boiler, and by rotation of thede-' vice be rolled about it as indicated at24 in Fig. 1, while carried to the wash tub; said rotation being effected by one hand on a crank 25, threaded at 26, upon the upward end of the rod, while the other hand supports the sleeve 23 in the position shown in Fig. 1. In this event it will be seen in dotted lines farthest to the left in Figs. 1 and 2 that the main yoke 678 is projected so as to provide more room for the boiled garments to be wound about. the device.

While thus handling and using the device in the laundry a large person may find it convenient to use a wooden extension 27 screwed on to the handle bar 1 and provided with a threaded stud 28 upon which the crank 25 is then placed, as shown in Fig. 1; but said extension 27 is mainly intended for use when the device is employed as a mop, in which case the crank may either be removed, or it may be used for wringing the mop cloth, which is in that case placed between rollers or other usual means (not shown).

The extension or section 27 of the handle may be secured to the section 1 by diiferent means, but in Fig. l is shown how the wooden section may have a nut 29 retained in an angular cavity in the wood by a ferrule 30, which may be secured by screws 31, and into said nut the threaded part 26 of the rod is screwed, and provided with a reduced extension'32, fitted snugly in the Wood beyond the nut. hen the wooden section is-removed, the crank is screwed upon the said threaded portion 26; otherwise the crank may be screwed upon the threaded end 28 of a gudgeon 33, secured in the upper end of the wooden section and is provided with collar or shoulder 3a which prevents the crank from pulling the glidgeon out by screwing against the end of the wood around it.

What I claim is:

In a device of the kind described, a handle rod having at one end a lateral guide and its body provided with two notches, a resilient arm fixed to the rod between the end having the guide and the notch nearest thereto, said arm having its free end curved to form a jaw adapted to be swung into line with tne rod beyond said guide, a member slidable in the guide and having its rear end resilient and arranged to engage alternately in either of the two notches; said sliding member having the part of it beyond the guide formed into a yoke having two spaces in which to receive alternately the jaw according to which notch on the rodis occupied by the sliding member, and a sleeve slidable on the rod so as to close the arm of the jaw to the rod and thereby the aw into either one of the spaces in the yoke.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

RICHARD SETZER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certified that the name of the assignee in Letters Patent No.

1,237,257, granted August 14, 1917, upon the application of Richard Setzer, of Motley, Minnesota, for an improvement in Mops and Clothes-Lifters, was erroneously Written and printed as Audley V. Tankboner, Whereas said name should have been Written and printed as Audle'y V. Fanlcboner, as shown by the records of assignments in this oflice; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 25th day of September, A. D., 1917.

F. W. H. CLAY,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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